[dorkbotsea-blabber] DorkSwap proposal

[Steve Safarik]

I think this is an excellent idea.  I still fondly remember Chuck Harrison's
table-o-textbooks at a meeting a few years ago, and having a monthly swap
would be great.  I like your proposed rules, too.  Being hands-on types, I
think the idea of having some misc boxes of "interesting stuff" to look
through is better than just online descriptions, especially for those weirdo
items that might resist description.

Steve.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wim Lewis" <wiml at hhhh.org>
To: <dorkbotsea-blabber at dorkbot.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 6:42 PM
Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] DorkSwap proposal


> A few people have posted for-sale or for-free ads to the dorkbot list
> lately. How do people feel about having some sort of swap-your-junk
> table at a future dorkbot? Or, if it goes well, as a regular feature
> of dorkbot-seattle? I often have random dorkular things I'm not going
> to be using again, but which are either too small or too odd to get
> rid of in other ways. Putting the handful of obsolete-but-unused PICs
> in my junk drawer on eBay would just be silly.
>
> I'd suggest ground rules like:
>     - If someone else doesn't want it, YOU MUST TAKE IT BACK. I don't
> think 911MAC or the Seattle Dorkbot Steering Overlords want to be
> stuck with hauling everybody's unwanted stuff to the dump each month.
>     - All stuff free-to-good-home; selling stuff would get too
> complicated
>     - Maybe some limit on how much you can bring (a box or two), just
> to keep things sane
>
> What do y'all think? Any input from the Secret Masters of Dorkbotsea?
>
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